Material on the Simonis family, including an album containing vital documents, military service and citizenship papers, prayerbooks, and festive notes; photos of family members; family history and correspondence on genealogy and other topics

Correspondence includes letters from Leo Baeck, Alfred Ballin, Hugo Bergmann, Berliner Zionistische Vereinigung, Arthur Czellitzer, Heinrich von Friedberg, Jacob Javits (about Heinrich Eduard Jacob), Reichsbund juedischer Frontsoldaten, Berlin, and Emperor Wilhelm II

Genealogical notes for four hundred Jewish families from Sweden, Berlin, and northern Germany, covering the period from the sixteenth through the twentieth century

Manuscripts and clippings; special issues of newspapers, including memorial numbers for personalities and anniversary issues for German-Jewish organizations; research notes on famous Jewish individuals, Zionism, the Jewish Question, and Jewish communities in Germany and elsewhere, including copies of pre-emancipation lists of tolerated Jews

Addenda: Booklet about the creation of state lottery in Hamburg: "350 Jahre Staatslotterie"

Born in Berlin on September 13, 1893, the genealogist Rudolf Simonis emigrated to Sweden in 1937 and died in Stockholm on December 17, 1965

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Photographs removed to Photograph Collection

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